Food product and process of producing the same.



" *rnr new HARRY A. GOULD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR,

BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO GRAIN PRODUCTS COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

FOOD PRODUCT AND PROCESS OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY A. GOULD, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis,-State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Food Product and Process of froducing the Same, of'which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful food product and process of producing the same.

My present invention resides in the production and provision of a so-called sub stantially ready-to-serve palatable nutritious food product high in laxative properties.

My new food product is one which, with little or no waste, may be manufactured or produced, and correspondingly furnished to consumers, at relatively low cost and in finished form is preferably in the shape of small cakes which may be conveniently and readily compactly packed, and supplied to the consuming public, in small containers,

cartons, or the like.

It is generally well known that bran, and particularly bran wheat, is high in laxative value, but bran, and especially bran of wheat, is of and by itself unpalatable and of no food value and is hence used as a food only, generally speaking, in exceptional cases, such as by persons aiilicted more or less with constipation. A palatable food product including bran as an element or constituent for its known laxative value has accordingly een greatly desired by the general public,, and many efforts have heretofore been made to supply the public with such a food product; but, so far as I am now aware, little success has attended the efforts of food manufacturers along these lines, the products produced finding comparatively little consumption and small sales. "My new food product, however, which, as hereinafter more fully appears, has bran of wheat as its main element or base, has already found great favor and success with the purchasing public and is apparently filling a long-felt demand in this direction.

In my new food product I contemplate the combination or mixture with bran of wheat of food constituents or elements which in no way lessen or detra from the Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 27, 1916. Serial No. 86,953.

mixture the relatively thin,

Patented June 13, 1916.

laxative value of the bran; on the contrary, these additional constituents or elements, being exceedingly nutritious and also highin laxative properties, give food value to'the finished product and also contribute thereto an agreeable taste. As such additional constituents or elements, I preferably employ cracker-meal or other pre-cooked flour in powdered or pulverized form and an edible syrup.

My food product hence includes as essential elements bran, preferably bran of wheat,

product and in providing first the said ediw ble syrup, I take approximately one pound of strained honey and approximately one and one-quarter pounds of molasses and mix the same together in a suitable receptacle; I then heat this syrup mixture until the same is of a relatively thin consistency, so that it will easily pour. I also in a suitable receptacle thoroughly mix the bran. of wheat with, say, approximately one-half pound of the cracker-meal, and then pour into such hot syrup. I then add to the mass the other approximately one-half pound of cracker-meal, and then again thoroughly mix the said several elements together, the syrup, in addition to contributing food value to the finished product, acting or serving also as a binder, as it might be called, for the bran and cracker-meal, which are, respectively and preferably, in flake and pulverized form. The mass or mixture is now ready for toasting, but in order that the finished product may be conveniently handled and supplied to consumers, the same is first molded or otherwise formed intosuitable shapes or cakes. Accordingly suitable relatively small upon a plank or other preferably wooden toasting surface, the molds duly removed, and the several food-cakes with their supporting plank or other. toasting surface placed Within a suitable oven, under the heat of which the several foodrakes are permitted to remain a. suitable length of time, approximately ten minutes,-the several. food-cakes being thereby toasted so as to dry, sterilize and relatively harden the same. On being removed from the oven, the several food-cakes are suitably cooled and are then ready for consumption, the cakes being preferably packed and wrapped for shinment in suitable containers, cartons, or the like.

Having thus described my invention, What i I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a, fOOL product composed of bran of wheat, crackermeal, strained honey, and molasses.

2. As a neuarticle of. manufacture, a toasted. food product composed of bran, precooked flour, and an edible syrup.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a toasted food product COIIIPOSLdOf bran of Wheat, crackcameal, and an edible syrup.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a toasted food product in cake form, the same being composed of bran of wheat, crackermeal, and an edible syrup. 1

5. As a new article of manufacture, a toasted food product in cake form, the same being composed of bran of Wheat, crackermeal, strained honey, and molasses.

6. As a now article of manufacture, a toasted food product in cake iorm, the same being composed of bran of whcat, cracker-- incal, strained honey, and molasses in api'iroximately the following proportions: bran of wheat, four and one-half pounds, cracker-meal, one pound, strained honey, one pound, and molasses, one and oucuuartcr pounds.

7. The process of )roducing thc food product herein describco, the same consisting of mixing bran of wheat and. 'crackcraucal, heating an edible syrup to a relatively thin consistency, and then pouring the heated syrup into the mixture of bran of wheat and cracker-meal.

8. The process of producing the food product herein dyscribcd, the szuuc consisting of mixing bran of wheat and crackermcal, heating an edible syrup to a relatively thin consistency, then pouring the heated syrup into the mixture of bran of Wheat and cracker-meal, and then adding to the mass an additional quantity of cracker-meal.

9. The process of producing the food product herein described, the same consisting of mixing bran of Wheat and crackermeal, heating an edible syrup to a rlatiyely thin consistency. then pouring the heated syrup into the mixture oi bran of Wheat and ,craclrcraneal, then adding to the mass an additional quantity of cracker-meal and product herein described, the same consist ing of mixing bran of Wheat and crackerineal, heating an edible syrup to a relatively thin consistency, then pouring the heated syrup into the mixturev of crackerqneal and bran and thoroughly mixing-the mass, and then toasting the mass.

12. The process of producing the food product herein described, the same consisting of mixing bran of wheat and crackerincal, heatingan edible syrup to a relatively thin consistency, then pouring the heated syrup into the mixture of c 'ackenmeal and bran and thoroughly mixing the mass, molding the mass into individual compact cakes, and then toasting the cakes.

' 13. The process of producing the food product herein described, the same consistin of mixing bran of wheat and crackernical, heating a syrup composed of honey and molasses to a relatively thin consistency, pouring thc heated syrup into the mixture of bran and cracker-meal and thoroughly niikiug the same, molding the mass into individual compact cakes, and then toasting the cakes.

lu fcstimony whereof, Lhave signed my namc to this spccilicationf HARRY A. GOULD. 

